Back when I taught middle school and wrote adult mysteries, my students often asked me why I wasn’t writing for kids. I never had a good answer for them. It took me a long time to realize they were right. Rick Riordan Read Quote
I love teaching. I love working with kids… maybe some day I’ll go back to the classroom. I’m not ready to say it’ll never happen. Rick Riordan Read Quote
I’ve never been a collector – just a consumer – and these days unless a book is signed to me by another author, I don’t normally have any qualms about passing it to a friend or donating it to the library. Rick Riordan Read Quote
When I was in college, my parents’ house burned down, and took a lot of the possessions I’d grown up with. That’s probably one thing that made me realize material stuff is not really that important. Rick Riordan Read Quote
It is true that I once refused to eat haggis in Scotland and this did not sit well with the local population. Rick Riordan Read Quote
For me, writing for kids is harder because they’re a more discriminating audience. While adults might stay with you, if you lose your pacing or if you have pages of extraneous description, a kid’s not going to do that. They will drop the book. Rick Riordan Read Quote
It’s always hard to wrap up a series. The longer I spend with the characters, the more they become like friends. Rick Riordan Read Quote
Writing ‘Book 1: The Maze of Bones’ didn’t feel much different than writing one of my other novels, but I thought it was very innovative to offer the website and trading card components as well for those readers who wanted to go more in depth with the Cahill experience. Rick Riordan Read Quote
